1916] Blake, — Limonium in North America and Mexico 59 



cm. wide, loosely flowered; spikelets apparently always 1-flowered. 

 Outermost bractlet ovate, acute to acuminate, with hyaline margin, 

 2-2.5 mm. long; middle ovate, hyaline, with greenish midrib, acutely 

 mucronate, 2.5-3 mm. long; innermost broadly oblong, acute, hyaline- 

 margined, 4.5 mm. long. Calyx obconic, glabrous (rarely with one or 

 two tiny hairs), 5.4-6.2 mm. long; lobes lance-ovate, acute, 0.7-1 mm. 

 long; teeth bifid or entire, minute, about 0.2 mm. long. Otherwise 

 as in L. carolinianum. Plate 118, fig. B. 



Statice caroliniana Boiss.! in A. DC. Prod. xii. 643 (1848), as to 

 specim. in part, not Walt. 



Statice brasiliensis Boiss. var. angustata Gray! Syn. PL ii. pt. 1. 54 

 (1878). 



Limonium angustatum (Gray) Small, Bull. Torr. Club xxiv. 488 

 (1897). 



Statice angustata (Small) Wangerin, Zeitscb. Xaturw. Halle lxxxn. 

 439 (1911). 



Statice brasiliensis Chapm. PI. S. U. S. ed. 2. 634 (1883) & ed. 3. 

 300 (1897), ex char., not Boiss. 



Florida: salt marsh, Myers, Lee Co., July-Aug. 1900, Hitchcock 

 194; salt marsh, Pine Key, Blodgett (type in Gray Herb.). 



Texas: Galveston Bay, July 1847, Lindheimer (hb. Kew., fragm. 

 in Gray Herb.); without definite locality, Drummond (hb. Kew., 

 fragm. in Gray Herb.). 



Although closely related to L. carolinianum, the present plant seems 

 specifically distinct in characters of braetlets and calyx. Hitchcock 

 194 agrees in the latter features with the originals of Blodgett and 

 must be referred to this species; its leaves however are much broader, 

 and indicate that the narrow leaves by which the plant was first dis- 

 tinguished as a variety are an individual feature of no great impor- 

 tance. The specimens of Lindheimer and Drummond from Texas, 

 cited by Boissier under Statice caroliniana, are certainly referable to the 

 present species, and considerably extend the known range of the plant. 



3. Limonium mexicanum Blake, n. sp. Perenne erectum scapo- 

 sum glabrum e radice subcylindrica ca. 13 cm. longa 0.8 cm. crassa. 

 Scapus subvalidus vix bracteatus supra mediam partem paniculate 

 ramosus. Folia oblonga vel oblongo-obovata vel obovata apiee 

 rotundata vel retusa interdum cuspidulata glabra coriacea crassius- 

 cula venosa sensim in petiolum cuneate angustata, lamina 4.7-21 cm. 

 longa 1.8-7.3 cm. lata in petiolis 2-9.5 cm. longis. Panicula pyra- 

 midalis 1.6-3.5 dm. lata, ramis divergenti-ascendentibus, ramulis 

 ultimis dense floriferis spicas 1.3-2 cm. longas formantibus; spiculis 

 saepissime 2-floris. Bractea extima orbicularis vel late orbiculari- 

 ovata obtusa vel acuta breviter mucronata infra herbacea crassula 

 punctata margine hyalino donata 1.5-2.5 mm. longa; mediae oblongo- 

 ovatae obtusae hyalinae; intima elliptico-obovata apice apiculata 

 late hyalino-marginata 3.6^ mm. longa. Calyx anguste infundibuli- 

 formis glaberrimus (rare sparsissime pubescens) 5-costatus 4.6-5.2 



